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The Gospel Distribution Network
In the current Presbyterian Record there is an engaging article by John Longhurst asking important questions about the long-term vision of the Record and its role in our church. I don’t want to comment much on the article so much as say that it makes me feel very uncreative. For a pastor who blogs most weeks, preaches weekly, prays publicly with many people, leads conversations, and is generally expected to have ideas, visions, and new dreams, I sometimes feel less…
Distant Neighbors
This past week I read a book called “Distant Neighbors”. It is a compilation of some of the correspondence between two of my favorite living writers and farmers (one of whom was a central person in my M.A. thesis), Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder. The title refers to a line in one of the letters and the idea that these two fellas feel like neighbors even though one lived in rural Kentucky (Berry) and the other in a rural section…